Method of packing bullets



R. W. VERGOBBI METHOD OF PACKING BULLETS Nov. 20, 1945.

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Patented Nov. 20, 1945 METHOD OF PACKING BULLETS Robert William Vergobbi, Quincy, Mass., assignor to Pneumatic Scale Corporation, Limited, Quincy, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application March 19, 1943, Serial No. 479,683

(o1. srs-47) 2 Claims.

This invention relates to a method of packing bullets and other elongated articles of general cylindrical shape.

The invention has for an object to provide a novel and highly eflicent method of packing bullets and other elongated articles of general cylindrical shape in a container such as a carton in a compact, predetermined and uniform arrangement.

With this general object in view and such others as may hereinafter appear, the invention consists in the method of packing the bullets and other elongated articles of general cylindrical shape and hereinafter described and particularly dened in the claims at the end of this specication.

In the drawing, Fig. l is a plan view of the bullet holding and transfer member, Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views illustrating successive steps in the present method of packing the bullets, and Fig. 5 is a perspective View of a filled container preparatory to being closed for shipment.

In general, the present invention contemplates a method of packing bullets for shipment in cartons and similar containers and is designed to facilitate the packing operation and to insure that the bullets are packed in the containers efficiently, with minimum waste of space and with the corresponding ends of the bullets pointing in a uniform direction.

Accordingly, the present method of packing bullets contemplates the use of a novel bullet holding and transfer member I0 comprising a base member I6 provided with a plurality of upstanding pins I8 arranged in spaced rows. The size of the pins I8 and the spacing of the same are related to the size of the bullet to be packaged so as to enable bullets I2 to be assembled in the holding member with their lateral surfaces in contact and with a pin I8 disposed in the space 2U between four adjacent bullets as clearly shown in Fig. 1. In this manner, minimum space is wasted in the packaging of the bullets.

In practicing the present method the operator places the bullets with their pellet ends 2| downwardly in the pockets 20 formed between each set of `four pins thus forming an assembly such as is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The carton I4 is then inverted and slipped downwardly over the upstanding pins I8 and the bullets held thereby, into a position such as is illustrated'in dotted lines in Fig. 3. The operator then inverts the whole assembly, removing the bullet holding and transfer member I0 as illustrated inV Fig. 4, leaving all of the bullets packaged within the carton I4 in closely packed and contacting relation and in evenly spaced rows with the pellet ends upwardly. The carton may then be closed by naps, including end flaps 22 which may and preferably will have folded portions 3U arranged to extend down between adjacent rows of the bullets as illustrated in Fig. 5 to further assist in confining the bullets and to prevent them from displacement during shipment. The upper ap 24 of the carton may be closed in any manner as by being adhesively secured to the horizontally extended end aps 22 and by the tucking flap 25 which may be tucked inside the front wall 26 of the carton.

The present bullet holding and transfer member III finds particular use in connection with machines for orienting and handling bullets, such machines forming the subject matter of my applications, Serial No. 473,091, filed January 2l, 1943, and Serial No. 473,092, filed January 2l, 1943, to which reference may be made. Such machines may deliver properly oriented bullets in successive rows and such rows of bullets may be conveniently deposited in the present bullet holding and transfer member and thereafter packaged as above described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

l. In a method of packing tapered bullets in a carton, the steps comprising arranging the bullets vertically with their smaller pellet ends pointing downwardly and with the peripheral surfaces of their larger cartridge ends in contacting engagement to form a compact mass of bullets, holding the bullets in such position by supporting them intermediate their tapered sides while maintaining the cartridge ends in peripheral engagement, placing over the bullets an inverted carton of a size such as to snugly t the mass of bullets, and subsequently inverting the mass of bullets and the carton to elect disposition of the bullets in the carton.

2. The method of packing in a carton bullets of the type which taper from their larger cartridge ends to their smaller pellet ends comprising arranging the bullets vertically with their pellet ends pointing downwardly and with the cartridge ends in peripheral engagement to form a compact mass of bullets, laterally supporting the bullets below their contacting ends and intermediate the space formed between their tapered sides while disposed in such vertical position and with their cartridge ends in contacting engagement, placing an inverted carton over the bullets of a size adapted to snugly fit the mass, and then inverting the mass and the carton to dispose the bullets in the carton with their pellet ends uppermost.

ROBERT WILLIAM VERGOBBI. 

